Farm Household Incomes: Perceptions and Statistics

Hill, Berkeley

doi:10.1016/s0743-0167(98)00068-0

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“…Consistent with previous studies (Lass et al 1991), the Table indicates that the farmers working off-farm are somewhat younger on average, have farms with slightly higher net worth, and higher debt-asset ratios, and are situated in areas with higher population density. Also consistent with previous studies, an increased incidence of off-farm work is observed on small farms and large farms while far fewer farmers of medium size farms were found to work off-farm (Hill 1999). In general, farm types involving livestock (particularly dairy farms) had a lower proportion of farmers in off-farm employment than cropping farms, reflecting that the labor demands of cropping farms are more conducive to the supply of non-farm labor.…”

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confidence: 88%

The Effect of Off-farm Work on the Intensity of Agricultural Production

Phimister

Roberts

2006

Environ Resource Econ

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Changes in agricultural production methods have been associated with environmental pressure and a loss of natural habitats. This paper explores the extent to which farmer participation in off-farm work (an increasing phenomenon in most developed countries) changes the intensity of agricultural input use focusing, in particular, on fertilizer and crop protection product use. A sample selection model that accounts for both unobserved heterogeneity between farms and the potential simultaneity between farm operations and hours worked off-farm is estimated for 2,419 farms in England and Wales. The econometric evidence indicates that the input intensity of products which have well-established links to environmental damage can increase as well as decrease. The results suggest that that fertilizer intensity may decline as off-farm labor increases while the use of crop protection per hectare increases as off-farm work increases. Copyright Springer 2006crop protection, farm household model, fertilizer, input intensity, multifunctionality, off-farm work, panel, Q53, Q12, Q24,

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Section: Datasupporting

confidence: 88%

The Effect of Off-farm Work on the Intensity of Agricultural Production

Phimister

Roberts

2006

Environ Resource Econ

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“…Other research has stressed the importance of farm household income (Hill 1999a;OECD 1995, OECD 2003 and this has led to several initiatives to evaluate the feasibility of farm household income statistics. Owing to political resistance and fear of farmer refusal, no systematic collection of farm household income has been achieved, although at national level some countries have been able to monitor household incomes in a more systematic way.…”

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confidence: 99%

Farm economic sustainability in the European Union: A pilot study

O’Donoghue¹,

Devisme²,

Ryan³

et al. 2016

Stud. Agr. Econ.

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The measurement of farm economic sustainability has received intermittent academic interest in recent times, while the conceptual discussions are often quite limited. Moreover, this concept receives more attention at periods of diffi culty for the sector. The measurement of farm viability is an important precondition to enrich these discussions. Therefore, it is necessary to develop more comprehensive and detailed measurement techniques to provide more clarity on viability and vulnerability levels in the sector. This paper refocuses attention on this issue, using a pilot dataset collected at farm level across a range of EU Member States which facilitates the assessment of an additional category of viability, namely that of economically sustainable farms, i.e. farms that are economically vulnerable but which are deemed sustainable by the presence of off-farm income. Differences in viability and economic sustainability across the eight surveyed Member States are shown. The analysis is sensitive to the factors included in the measurement of viability as well as to the threshold income used to defi ne viability. Although this is a pilot study, it enhances our understanding of the factors affecting cross-country evaluation of viability and sustainability, and the policy instruments that could improve viability levels.

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“…Perceptions are then an important component of environmental education according to this definition; and understanding rural farmers' perceptions about the environment may provide a framework for forest conservation, and inform future efforts in forest education. Consequently, several studies have been conducted to investigate environmental perceptions worldwide (Napier and Napier, 1991;Hartup, 1994;Colchester, 1996;Jacobson and Marynowski, 1997;Furman, 1998;Hill, 1999). A common finding following from these studies is that conservation attitudes reflect resource-use benefits.…”

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confidence: 99%